Two Stone Houses Side by Side: Two Answers in the Same Language

Design two houses on one rural site in the manner of Eduardo Souto de Moura's Ponte de Lima pair — both built from the same reclaimed local granite and both long and low, but one buried into the slope with a grass roof and the other standing free, so the site is read twice in two ways. Compose two parallel granite-walled volumes on a terraced hillside, one with its roof level with the upper field and the other with a flat exposed roof, identical stonework and identical window proportions, vine terraces and green Minho landscape around, soft damp northern Portuguese light, elevated three-quarter view, 24mm lens, architectural photography, ultra photorealistic, 8K